Tax Time!

It’s January and guess what that means!! Tax time again!  If you’ve been reading for awhile, you know that I LOVE tax time.  Especially since we’ve had 2 kids because that means mula coming to us.  I started printing all of our stuff today and going through the checkbook to categorize everything.  I just downloaded all the federal and state forms I’ll need to do my taxes but not actually submit them.  Yes, I do my taxes myself to see how much we are getting but let a professional do them and submit them.  I just can’t stand that our companies wait until January 31 to mail our forms and then I have to wait until mid February to find out how much we are getting back.  If I sit down and do it tonight, I could know how much we are getting back and then we can start planning!  Last year we put up our fence and built the back deck.  The year before we put on our sunroom addition.  Those were definitely fantastic investments and have been greatly used.  This year I think we are leaning towards either a used car for me to take to work or paying down our van loan.  My current list of things I really want to do but would take several years worth of tax returns:

Hardwood floors in living room/kitchen/entry/playroom
Kitchen countertops
Refrigerator (and stove if I REALLY had a lot of money)
Curtains for my room
Curtains for my living room (if I could figure out what fabric I wanted)
Pay off our van
Get another car for us to use
Bedside table for Scott
Telescopic lens for my camera
New computer that will run Pinnacle including new graphics card with TV Tuner
DVD camcorder

I’m sure there’s more but that’s what comes to mind.  Just about 25K-30K would take care of that, no biggie right??